Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture's chief blunder is the miscasting of Patricia Neal, an able young Broadway actress whose throaty, stagy intensity in this featherweight role suggests a tigress in a cat show...
...wheel in this novel civilization is a slinky siren named Antinea (Maria Montez). When a couple of the Foreign Legion boys (Jean Pierre Aumont and Dennis O'Keefe) blunder into her boudoir cooking for a missing French archeologist (he shows up eventually, tidily gold-leafed in the Visitors' Gallery), she plays them off against each other. Then she plays both off against the old embalming fluid...
Lamont University Professor Sumner H. Slichter lashed out against Mr. Truman's plan of raising corporation taxes. Said Slichter: "The President's proposal for a $4,000,000,000 increase in taxes is an economic blunder of the first magnitude. The President is apparently unaware that the economic situation of the country has materially changed during the last six months from one of inflation to one in which inflationary and deflationary influences are in rough balance...
...Nixon beat a quick, strategic retreat via a television broadcast. Said he: "Whittaker Chambers' statement clears Duggan of any implication in the espionage ring." Democratic committee members tore at Mundt like wolves snapping at a fallen fellow. Said Congressman F. Edward Hébert of New Orleans: ". . . a blunder . . . a breach of confidence." Mississippi's loudmouthed old John Rankin cried, self-righteously: "Atrocious...
...Blunder. The minute the decision was announced, the government, watching carefully, sensed a major political blunder. The season had only five weeks to go, and the 50,000 members of the league-leading "Racing" club were furious. So were backers of the second-place "River Plate" club (nicknamed Los Millonarios because of the club's free-handed spending for players). So were the "Boca Juniors" (No. 1 fan: President Juan Perón). So was nearly everybody else...